The Fate of Mood and Modality in Language Death: Evidence from Minor Finnic 9783110524086, 9783110521856

The Fate of Mood and Modality in Language Death: Evidence from Minor Finnic 9783110524086, 9783110521856, 9783110521993

Research into the “grammar of language death” is often biased toward formal processes (e.g. paradigmatic levelling). In

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Mood and Modality in Hurrian 9781575067148

In a long dead language isolate such as Hurrian, grammatical studies are replete with difficulties. The paucity of mater

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The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood 9780199591435, 0199591431

This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and moo

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Modality and Mood in Romance: Modal interpretation, mood selection, and mood alternation 9783110234336, 9783110234343

This collective volume contains a selection of research contributions, presented at the 30th Deutscher Romanistentag[Ger

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The Oxford Handbook of Modality and Mood 9780191646348, 9780199591435, 0191646342

This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and moo

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Modality, Mood and Aspect in Spoken Arabic 1136882138, 9781136882135

First published in 1995. Part of the library of Arabic Linguistics series which devotes itself to all issues of Arabic l

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The History of the Present English Subjunctive: A Corpus-based Study of Mood and Modality 9781474438018

Traces the development of subjunctive use across the Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English periods Uses

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Modality and the Japanese language 1929280181, 2002075088

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Modality and Ellipsis: Diachronic and Synchronic Evidence 9783110213362, 9783110205091

Aspects of modality and ellipsis have become prominent in theoretical linguistics over the last years. What has remained

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Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought: Mood, Modality, and Propositional Attitudes 9780226763484

Can language directly access what is true, or is the truth judgment affected by the subjective, perhaps even solipsistic

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